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+---
+'@object-ui/components': minor
+'@object-ui/plugin-form': minor
+'@object-ui/console': minor
+---
+
+fix(ui): a form view's `layout: 'horizontal'` draws each label beside its field, a tabbed form keeps it, and the form page draws `type: 'tabbed'` as tabs (#26843)
+
+Clause-②: no
+Metadata-protocol: semantic
+
+A form view's `layout: 'horizontal'` reached every console form but drew nothing different, and the form page ignored `type: 'tabbed'`:
+
+- **`layout: 'horizontal'`** now places each field's label in a fixed column beside its control from the `sm` breakpoint up; below `sm` (a phone) the field stays stacked, label above control, as `vertical` draws it. The description and validation message stay under the control. `vertical`, and a form view with no `layout`, draw exactly as before. Before, the form renderer read the key only to align its action row.
+- **A tabbed form** (`type: 'tabbed'`) now keeps an authored `layout: 'horizontal'` on every tab. It used to draw its fields `vertical` whatever the form view said.
+- **The form page** (`/forms/:name`, and the public `/f/:slug`) now draws a `type: 'tabbed'` form view as one tab per section: `defaultTab` opens first, `tabPosition` places the strip, and a section hidden by its `visibleWhen` draws no tab. A submit carries every section's fields, the closed tabs' included, and a submit refused for a missing field opens the tab that holds it. A tabbed form view with a single section draws it stacked, as before. The page also draws `layout: 'horizontal'` rows. Before, it drew every section stacked and every label above its field.
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+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * objectstack-ai/objectstack#26843 — the form page draws a form view's
+ * `type: 'tabbed'` and `layout: 'horizontal'`, which it never read.
+ *
+ *   - `type: 'tabbed'`: one tab per section, the form view's `defaultTab` open
+ *     first and `tabPosition` placing the strip — the semantics of the app's
+ *     tabbed form. A submit carries every section's fields, the closed tabs'
+ *     included, and a refused submit opens the tab holding the field it names.
+ *   - `layout: 'horizontal'`: each row draws its label beside the control from
+ *     `sm` up, the arrangement the form renderer gives the same key.
+ *
+ * CONTROLS: a `type: 'simple'` view, and a tabbed view with one section, draw
+ * stacked sections and no tab strip; no `layout` draws no grid row.
+ */
+
+import { describe, expect, it, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { render, screen, waitFor, cleanup, within } from '@testing-library/react';
+import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
+import { MemoryRouter, Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom';
+import { createI18n } from '@object-ui/i18n';
+import { FormPage, resolveActiveTab, sectionTabKey } from './FormPage';
+
+vi.mock('sonner', () => ({ toast: { success: vi.fn(), error: vi.fn() } }));
+
+const OBJECT_SCHEMA = {
+  name: 'showcase_ticket',
+  label: 'Ticket',
+  fields: {
+    title: { type: 'text', label: 'Title' },
+    notes: { type: 'text', label: 'Notes' },
+    channel: { type: 'text', label: 'Channel' },
+  },
+};
+
+const THREE_SECTIONS = [
+  { name: 'main', label: 'Main', fields: ['title'] },
+  { name: 'more', label: 'More', fields: ['notes'] },
+  { name: 'routing', label: 'Routing', fields: ['channel'] },
+];
+
+let submits: Array<{ url: string; body: Record<string, unknown> }> = [];
+
+function stubFetch(form: Record<string, unknown>, objectSchema: unknown = OBJECT_SCHEMA) {
+  return vi.fn(async (url: string, init?: RequestInit) => {
+    const path = String(url);
+    if (init?.method === 'POST') {
+      submits.push({ url: path, body: JSON.parse(String(init.body)) });
+    }
+    const body = path.includes('/meta/view/')
+      ? {
+          name: 'showcase_ticket.intake',
+          object: 'showcase_ticket',
+          viewKind: 'form',
+          label: 'Intake',
+          config: { type: 'tabbed', sections: THREE_SECTIONS, ...form },
+        }
+      : path.includes('/meta/object/')
+        ? objectSchema
+        : path.includes('/data/showcase_ticket')
+          ? { object: 'showcase_ticket', id: 't1', record: { id: 't1' } }
+          : null;
+    if (!body) throw new Error(`unstubbed fetch: ${path}`);
+    return {
+      ok: true,
+      status: 200,
+      statusText: 'OK',
+      json: async () => body,
+      text: async () => JSON.stringify(body),
+    } as unknown as Response;
+  });
+}
+
+function renderPage() {
+  return render(
+    <MemoryRouter initialEntries={['/forms/showcase_ticket.intake']}>
+      <Routes>
+        <Route path="/forms/:name" element={<FormPage mode="internal" />} />
+      </Routes>
+    </MemoryRouter>,
+  );
+}
+
+const input = (name: string) => document.querySelector(`[name="${name}"]`) as HTMLInputElement | null;
+const tab = (key: string) => screen.queryByTestId(`form-tab:${key}`);
+const panel = (key: string) => screen.queryByTestId(`form-tab-panel:${key}`);
+const isOpen = (key: string) => tab(key)?.getAttribute('data-state') === 'active';
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  submits = [];
+  createI18n({ defaultLanguage: 'en', detectBrowserLanguage: false });
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+});
+
+describe('FormPage draws a tabbed form view as tabs (#26843)', () => {
+  it('one tab per section, named by its heading, every panel mounted', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({}));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab('main')).not.toBeNull());
+    const strip = screen.getByRole('tablist');
+    expect(within(strip).getAllByRole('tab').map((t) => t.textContent)).toEqual(['Main', 'More', 'Routing']);
+    // No stacked section card beside the strip.
+    expect(document.querySelector('form section')).toBeNull();
+    // Force-mounted: a closed tab's control exists, only CSS-hidden. (The
+    // widgets are lazy, so they arrive after the strip.)
+    await waitFor(() => {
+      for (const name of ['title', 'notes', 'channel']) expect(input(name), name).not.toBeNull();
+    });
+    expect(panel('more')?.getAttribute('data-state')).toBe('inactive');
+    expect(panel('more')?.className).toContain('data-[state=inactive]:hidden');
+    // With no `defaultTab`, the first tab opens.
+    expect(isOpen('main')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('the form view\'s defaultTab opens first', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ defaultTab: 'routing' }));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab('routing')).not.toBeNull());
+    expect(isOpen('routing')).toBe(true);
+    expect(isOpen('main')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('a tab click switches the open panel', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({}));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab('more')).not.toBeNull());
+    await userEvent.click(tab('more')!);
+    expect(isOpen('more')).toBe(true);
+    expect(panel('main')?.getAttribute('data-state')).toBe('inactive');
+  });
+
+  it('tabPosition: left draws a vertical strip', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ tabPosition: 'left' }));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(tab('main')).not.toBeNull());
+    expect(screen.getByRole('tablist').getAttribute('aria-orientation')).toBe('vertical');
+  });
+
+  it('a submit carries every section\'s fields, the closed tabs\' included', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ defaults: { channel: 'web' } }));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(input('title')).not.toBeNull());
+    await userEvent.type(input('title')!, 'Printer jam');
+    await userEvent.click(tab('more')!);
+    await userEvent.type(input('notes')!, 'Third floor');
+    // `routing` is never opened: its field carries the form view's default.
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Submit' }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(submits).toHaveLength(1));
+    expect(submits[0].body).toMatchObject({ title: 'Printer jam', notes: 'Third floor', channel: 'web' });
+  });
+
+  it('a refused submit opens the tab holding the field it names', async () => {
+    const schema = {
+      ...OBJECT_SCHEMA,
+      fields: { ...OBJECT_SCHEMA.fields, channel: { type: 'text', label: 'Channel', required: true } },
+    };
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({}, schema));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(input('title')).not.toBeNull());
+    expect(isOpen('main')).toBe(true);
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Submit' }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(isOpen('routing')).toBe(true));
+    expect(submits).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('CONTROL: a single-section tabbed view draws its section stacked, no strip', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ sections: [THREE_SECTIONS[0]] }));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(input('title')).not.toBeNull());
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('tablist')).toBeNull();
+    expect(document.querySelectorAll('form section')).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it('CONTROL: a simple view draws every section stacked, no strip', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ type: 'simple', defaultTab: 'routing' }));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(input('title')).not.toBeNull());
+    expect(screen.queryByRole('tablist')).toBeNull();
+    expect([...document.querySelectorAll('form section h2')].map((h) => h.textContent)).toEqual([
+      'Main',
+      'More',
+      'Routing',
+    ]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('FormPage draws layout: horizontal rows (#26843)', () => {
+  const LABELS: Record<string, string> = { title: 'Title', notes: 'Notes', channel: 'Channel' };
+  /** The row a field's `<label>` sits in. */
+  const row = (name: string) => screen.getByText(LABELS[name]).closest('label')!.parentElement!;
+
+  it('each row puts its label beside the control at sm, stacked below', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ type: 'simple', layout: 'horizontal' }));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(input('title')).not.toBeNull());
+    const classes = row('title').className.split(/\s+/);
+    expect(classes).toContain('sm:grid');
+    expect(classes).toContain('sm:[&>:not(label)]:col-start-2');
+    // Below sm nothing changes: every class the row carries is sm:-prefixed.
+    expect(classes.filter((c) => !c.startsWith('sm:'))).toEqual([]);
+    expect(row('title').firstElementChild?.tagName).toBe('LABEL');
+    // The label still names its control.
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText('Title')).toBe(input('title'));
+  });
+
+  it('a tabbed view keeps it on every tab', async () => {
+    vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ layout: 'horizontal' }));
+    renderPage();
+    await waitFor(() => expect(input('notes')).not.toBeNull());
+    for (const name of ['title', 'notes', 'channel']) {
+      expect(row(name).className.split(/\s+/), name).toContain('sm:grid');
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('CONTROL: no layout, and vertical — no grid row', async () => {
+    for (const layout of [undefined, 'vertical']) {
+      vi.stubGlobal('fetch', stubFetch({ type: 'simple', ...(layout ? { layout } : {}) }));
+      renderPage();
+      await waitFor(() => expect(input('title')).not.toBeNull());
+      expect(row('title').className.split(/\s+/), String(layout)).not.toContain('sm:grid');
+      cleanup();
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the tab rules (#26843)', () => {
+  it('a section\'s tab is its name, else its heading, else its position — TabbedForm\'s rule', () => {
+    expect(sectionTabKey({ name: 'main', label: 'Main' }, 0)).toBe('main');
+    expect(sectionTabKey({ label: 'Main' }, 0)).toBe('Main');
+    expect(sectionTabKey({}, 2)).toBe('tab-2');
+  });
+
+  it('the open tab is the pick, else defaultTab, else the first — each only if drawn', () => {
+    const drawn = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
+    expect(resolveActiveTab(drawn, 'c', 'b')).toBe('c');
+    expect(resolveActiveTab(drawn, null, 'b')).toBe('b');
+    expect(resolveActiveTab(drawn, 'gone', 'b')).toBe('b');
+    expect(resolveActiveTab(drawn, null, 'hidden')).toBe('a');
+    expect(resolveActiveTab([], null, 'b')).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});